[SEC508] RE: [SEC508] §1194.21(i) violation with visited/non-visited links by default?

["Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@ed.gov>]

Screen readers are very good at telling the user that a link has been visited.  If they 
are just tracking color changes, you are right in that this may be an issue under 
1194.21[i].  If, on the other hand, the browser is using another means to inform the 
screen reader, or to put it another way, if the screen reader is tracking a flag or other 
means, then it should be ok.

Don Barrett
Section 508 Coordinator
U.S. Department of Education
(202)-205-8245
don.barrett@ed.gov
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu [mailto:sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu]On
Behalf Of Peter Korn
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:28 PM
To: sec508@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: [SEC508] §1194.21(i) violation with visited/non-visited links
by default?


Greetings,

Sorry if this has come up before and been discussed...

In a conversation earlier today about §1194.21(i) "Color coding shall not be 
used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, 
prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element" the question of 
visited/non-visited links in a web page came up.  The default 
behavior/convention for this has been a color change of the link.  Clearly one 
can change the default behavior (especially with CSS); but...

I did a search of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, and didn't see a 
reference to the question of link color.


Any thoughts?


Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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